Scoop: 60 MINUTES on CBS - Sunday, October 8, 2017

60 MINUTES, the most successful television broadcast in history, began its 49th season in September 2016. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast begun in 1968 is still a hit in 2016, making Nielsen’s Top 10 nearly every week.

Over the 2015-2016 season, 60 MINUTES continued its dominance as the number-one news program, drawing an average of 12.3 million viewers per week – almost twice the audience of its nearest network news magazine competitor and three million viewers ahead of the most-watched daily network evening news broadcast. The average audience for a 60 MINUTES broadcast still dwarfs the biggest audiences drawn by cable news programs.

The following stories are scheduled to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, Sunday, Oct. 8 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/ PT) on the CBS Television Network.

BRAD PARSCALE – Meet the Trump campaign digital director whose strategic use of Facebook political ads may have been a critical factor in Donald Trump’svictory. Lesley Stahl reports. Shachar Bar-On is the producer.

THE RESTAURATEUR – Anderson Cooper profiles the pioneering restaurateur Danny Meyer, whose ideas have influenced the business for years and led to the creation of his billion-dollar global burger chain Shake Shack. But will his latest concept, a no-tip policy at fine restaurants, catch on? Ruth Streeter is the producer.